Method for information transmission, base station, and user equipment

ABSTRACT

Embodiments of the present application provide a method for information transmission. The method includes determining multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations; determining a first enhanced transmission occasion configuration according to a channel loss magnitude with a user equipment, a time width occupied by the enhanced transmission occasion is greater than a time width occupied by a non-enhanced transmission occasion; and sending information according to the first enhanced transmission occasion configuration. Embodiments of the present application also provide a base station and user equipment, configured to determine an enhanced transmission occasion configuration according to the range which the channel loss magnitude belongs to. Therefore, the base station and user equipment may send and/or receive information on a suitable time-frequency resource and power configuration according to the channel loss magnitude.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No.16/408,998, filed on May 10, 2019, which is a continuation of U.S.patent application Ser. No. 15/678,686, filed on Aug. 16, 2017, now U.S.Pat. No. 10,314,014, which is a continuation of U.S. patent applicationSer. No. 14/713,580, filed on May 15, 2015, now U.S. Pat. No. 9,769,798,issued Sep. 19, 2017, which is a continuation of InternationalApplication No. PCT/CN2012/084679, filed on Nov. 15, 2012. All of theaforementioned patent applications are hereby incorporated by referencein their entireties.

TECHNICAL FIELD

Embodiments of the present application relate to the field ofcommunications and, in particular, to a method for informationtransmission, a base station, and a user equipment.

BACKGROUND

As an important part of a new generation of information technology, theinternet of things (TOT) refers to a network in which information of thephysical world is obtained through deploying various devices havingcapabilities of certain sense, computation, execution and communication,information transmission, collaboration and processing are realizedthrough the internet, and thereby the interconnections between peopleand things, and between things and things are achieved. Generally, thefirst phase of the internet of things is called machine to machine(M2M), i.e., to realize free communication between machines. As for acommunication network (such as the mobile cellular network), the type ofcommunication service undertaken by the communication network is calleda machine type communication (MTC).

In recent years, the long term evolution (LTE) project is the biggestnew technology research and development project launched by the 3^(rd)generation partnership project (3GPP), this kind of technology with theorthogonal frequency division multiplexing technology (OFDM)/themulti-input multi-output technology (MIMO) as the core can provide peakrates of downlink 100 Mbps and uplink 50 Mbps on a 20 MHz spectrumbandwidth, and can improve cell-edge user performance, increase cellcapacity and reduce system delay. The performance advantages of the LTEsystem bring a great deal of benefits, presently, a number of M2Mdevices can make full use of the advantages of the LTE network, where,one type of M2M devices can bring immediate performance improvement byutilizing the characteristics of high speed and low delaycharacteristics of the LTE, and the other type of M2M devices is lessdemanding on connection.

Research on LTE-based low-cost MTC user equipment mainly considers theneeded enhancement or optimization for the LTE network and airinterfaces aimed at the introduction of MTC devices, where the coverageproblem is one of the key issues concerned by operators. For example, animportant application of the MTC user equipment is the intelligentinstrument which is installed in the basement under the building, or issegregated by the metal shell. In this case, an MTC user equipment willundergo more severe path loss than a common user equipment, for example,the path loss increases 20 dB additionally. The severe path loss willmake the power consumption of the MTC user equipment increase. Moreover,in consideration of the fact that the MTC user equipment are usuallypowered by a battery, the increasing of the power consumption willshorten the battery life, which is not good for equipment maintenance.

SUMMARY

With respect to the foregoing problem, embodiments of the presentapplication provide a method for information transmission, a basestation, and a user equipment, so that the power consumption can bereduced, and the resource allocation can be optimized.

The first aspect provides a method for information transmission,including: determining a first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration according to a channel loss magnitude with a userequipment, where a time width occupied by an enhanced transmissionoccasion is greater than a time width occupied by a non-enhancedtransmission occasion; and transmitting information according to thefirst enhanced transmission occasion configuration.

In combination with the first aspect, in one implementation method,before the determining the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration according to the channel loss magnitude with the userequipment, the method further includes: determining multiple enhancedtransmission occasion configurations, where the multiple enhancedtransmission occasion configurations includes the first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, there is a one-to-onecorrespondence between the multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations and multiple channel loss magnitude ranges.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, a transmission typecorresponding to each channel loss magnitude range in the multiplechannel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to at least one informationtype in multiple information types, where the transmission typeindicates a transmission format adopted for the informationtransmission, and the information type indicates an attribute or a typeof the information.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to each channel loss magnituderange in the multiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to atleast one information type in the multiple information types.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, a transmission typecorresponding to each channel loss magnitude range in the multiplechannel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to each information type inmultiple information types.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to each channel loss magnituderange in the multiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to eachinformation type in the multiple information types.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the determining the firstenhanced transmission occasion configuration according to the channelloss magnitude with the user equipment, includes: determining a firstchannel loss magnitude range which the channel loss magnitude belongs toin multiple channel loss magnitude ranges; determining the firstenhanced transmission occasion configuration corresponding to the firstchannel loss magnitude range.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the determining the firstenhanced transmission occasion configuration according to the channelloss magnitude with the user equipment, includes: determining atransmission type according to a channel loss magnitude range which thechannel loss magnitude belongs to; and determining the first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration according to the transmission typeand an information type of the information.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the transmitting theinformation according to the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration, includes: performing the information transmission on anenhanced transmission occasion configured by the first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration according to the transmission type.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the method includes: sendingthe multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations correspondingto the multiple channel loss magnitude ranges to the user equipment.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the sending the multipleenhanced transmission occasion configurations corresponding to themultiple channel loss magnitude ranges to the user equipment, includes:sending multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurationinformation to the user equipment through one or multiple signaling of aradio resource control (RRC) broadcast signaling, an RRC dedicatedsignaling, an RRC multicast signaling, a media access control (MAC)control element (CE) signaling and a physical layer signaling.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the multiple enhancedtransmission occasion configuration information includes: each enhancedtransmission occasion configuration in the multiple enhancedtransmission occasion configurations; or, each enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration in the multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations and the number of the multiple enhanced transmissionoccasion configurations.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the method includes: sendingthe transmission type corresponding to each channel loss magnitude rangeto the user equipment.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the sending the transmissiontype corresponding to each channel loss magnitude range to the userequipment, includes: sending the transmission type to the user equipmentthrough one or multiple signaling of a radio resource control (RRC)broadcast signaling, an RRC dedicated signaling, an RRC multicastsignaling, a media access control (MAC) control element (CE) signalingand a physical layer signaling.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the method includes: sendingthe first enhanced transmission occasion configuration determinedaccording to the transmission type to the user equipment.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the sending the first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration determined according to thetransmission type to the user equipment, includes: sending the firstenhanced transmission occasion configuration to the user equipmentthrough an RRC dedicated signaling and/or a physical layer dedicatedsignaling.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration includes at least one of the following: a timeinterval of enhanced transmission occasions; a starting time point of anenhanced transmission occasion; a starting point of a frequency resourceoccupied by an enhanced transmission occasion; a size and/or a locationof a frequency resource occupied by an enhanced transmission occasion; asize and/or a location of a time resource occupied by an enhancedtransmission occasion; a power configuration adopted for informationtransmission in an enhanced transmission occasion.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the channel loss with theuser equipment is: a path loss with the user equipment; or a referencesignal received power (RSRP) measured by the user equipment; or areference signal received quality (RSRQ) measured by the user equipment;or a channel quality information (CQI) determined by the user equipment;or a coverage enhancement expected by the user equipment.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the transmission typeincludes at least one of the following: a number M of repetitiontransmission; a multiple M of spectrum-spreading transmission; atransmission time interval bundling size M; an aggregation level L; amodulation scheme; an encoding scheme; a random access preambletransmission format; or a power configuration.

In combination with the first aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the information type belongsto any one of the type sets below: a physical channel type set; a signaltype set; or a message type set.

The second aspect provides a method for information transmission, themethod includes: determining a first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration according to a channel loss magnitude with a base station,where a time width occupied by an enhanced transmission occasion isgreater than a time width occupied by a non-enhanced transmissionoccasion; and transmitting information according to the first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration.

In combination with the second aspect, in one implementation method,before the determining the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration according to the channel loss magnitude with the basestation, the method further includes: determining multiple enhancedtransmission occasion configurations, where the multiple enhancedtransmission occasion configurations includes the first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration.

In combination with the second aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the determining the multipleenhanced transmission occasion configurations includes: receivingmultiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations which correspondto multiple channel loss magnitude ranges and are sent by the basestation; and receiving a transmission type which corresponds to eachchannel loss magnitude range and is sent by the base station.

In combination with the second aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, there is a one-to-onecorrespondence between the multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations and the multiple channel loss magnitude ranges.

In combination with the second aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, a transmission typecorresponding to each channel loss magnitude range in the multiplechannel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to at least one informationtype in multiple information types, where the transmission typeindicates a transmission format adopted for the informationtransmission, and the information type indicates an attribute or a typeof the information.

In combination with the second aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to each channel loss magnituderange in the multiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to atleast one information type in the multiple information types.

In combination with the second aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, a transmission typecorresponding to each channel loss magnitude range in the multiplechannel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to each information type inmultiple information types.

In combination with the second aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to each channel loss magnituderange in the multiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to eachinformation type in the multiple information types.

In combination with the second aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the determining the multipleenhanced transmission occasion configurations further includes:obtaining the multiple enhanced transmission occasions, which arepreconfigured.

In combination with the second aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the determining the firstenhanced transmission occasion configuration according to the channelloss magnitude with the base station, includes: determining a firstchannel loss magnitude range which the channel loss magnitude belongs toin multiple channel loss magnitude ranges; and determining the firstenhanced transmission occasion configuration corresponding to the firstchannel loss magnitude range.

In combination with the second aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the determining the firstenhanced transmission occasion configuration according to the channelloss magnitude with the base station, includes: receiving the firstenhanced transmission occasion configuration sent by the base station.

In combination with the second aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the transmitting theinformation according to the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration, includes: performing the information transmission on anenhanced transmission occasion configured by the first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration according to the transmission type.

In combination with the second aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the receiving the multipleenhanced transmission occasion configurations which correspond to themultiple channel loss magnitude ranges and are sent by the base station,includes: receiving multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration information sent by the base station through one ormultiple signaling of a radio resource control (RRC) broadcastsignaling, an RRC dedicated signaling, an RRC multicast signaling, amedia access control (MAC) control element (CE) signaling and a physicallayer signaling.

In combination with the second aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the multiple enhancedtransmission occasion configuration information includes: each enhancedtransmission occasion configuration in the multiple enhancedtransmission occasion configurations; or, each enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration in the multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations and the number of the multiple enhanced transmissionoccasion configurations.

In combination with the second aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the receiving the transmissiontype which corresponds to each channel loss magnitude range and is sentby the base station, includes: receiving the transmission typetransmitted by the base station through one or multiple signaling of aradio resource control (RRC) broadcast signaling, an RRC dedicatedsignaling, an RRC multicast signaling, a media access control (MAC)control element (CE) signaling and a physical layer signaling.

In combination with the second aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the receiving the firstenhanced transmission occasion configuration sent by the base station,includes: receiving the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration transmitted by the base station through an RRC dedicatedsignaling and/or a physical layer dedicated signaling.

In combination with the second aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration includes at least one of the following: a timeinterval of enhanced transmission occasions; a starting time point of anenhanced transmission occasion; a starting point of a frequency resourceoccupied by an enhanced transmission occasion; a size and/or a locationof a frequency resource occupied by an enhanced transmission occasion; asize and/or a location of a time resource occupied by an enhancedtransmission occasion; or a power configuration adopted for theinformation transmission in an enhanced transmission occasion.

In combination with the second aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the transmission typeincludes at least one of the following: a number M of repetitiontransmission; a multiple M of spectrum-spreading transmission; atransmission time interval cluster size M; an aggregation level L; amodulation scheme; an encoding scheme; a random access preambletransmission format; or a power configuration.

In combination with the second aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the information type belongsto any one of the type sets below: a physical channel type set; a signaltype set; a message type set.

A third aspect provides a base station, including: a first determiningmodule, configured to determine a first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration according to a channel loss magnitude with a userequipment, where a time width occupied by an enhanced transmissionoccasion is greater than a time width occupied by a non-enhancedtransmission occasion; and a transmission module, configured to transmitinformation according to the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration.

In combination with the third aspect, in one implementation method, thebase station further includes: a second determining module, configuredto determine multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations,where the multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurationsincludes the first enhanced transmission occasion configuration.

In combination with the third aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, there is a one-to-onecorrespondence between the multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations and multiple channel loss magnitude ranges.

In combination with the third aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, a transmission typecorresponding to each channel loss magnitude range in the multiplechannel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to at least one informationtype in multiple information types, where the transmission typeindicates a transmission format adopted for the informationtransmission, and the information type indicates an attribute or a typeof the information.

In combination with the third aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to each channel loss magnituderange in the multiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to atleast one information type in the multiple information types.

In combination with the third aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, a transmission typecorresponding to each channel loss magnitude range in the multiplechannel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to each information type inmultiple information types.

In combination with the third aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to each channel loss magnituderange in the multiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to eachinformation type in the multiple information types.

In combination with the third aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the first determining moduleis specifically configured to: determine a first channel loss magnituderange which the channel loss magnitude belongs to in multiple channelloss magnitude ranges; and determine the first enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to the first channel loss magnituderange.

In combination with the third aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the first determining moduleis specifically configured to: determine a transmission type accordingto a channel loss magnitude range which the channel loss magnitudebelongs to; and determine the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration according to the transmission type and an information typeof the information.

In combination with the third aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the transmission module isspecifically configured to: perform the information transmission on anenhanced transmission occasion configured by the first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration according to the transmission type.

In combination with the third aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the transmission module isspecifically configured to: send the multiple enhanced transmissionoccasion configurations corresponding to the multiple channel lossmagnitude ranges to the user equipment.

In combination with the third aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the transmission module isspecifically configured to: send multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration information to the user equipment through one or multiplesignaling of a radio resource control (RRC) broadcast signaling, an RRCdedicated signaling, an RRC multicast signaling, a media access control(MAC) control element (CE) signaling and a physical layer signaling.

In combination with the third aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the multiple enhancedtransmission occasion configuration information includes: each enhancedtransmission occasion configuration in the multiple enhancedtransmission occasion configurations; or, each enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration in the multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations and the number of the multiple enhanced transmissionoccasion configurations.

In combination with the third aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the transmission module isspecifically configured to: send the transmission type corresponding toeach channel loss magnitude range to the user equipment.

In combination with the third aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the transmission module isspecifically configured to: send the transmission type to the userequipment through one or multiple signaling of a radio resource control(RRC) broadcast signaling, an RRC dedicated signaling, an RRC multicastsignaling, a media access control (MAC) control element (CE) signalingand a physical layer signaling.

In combination with the third aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the transmission module isspecifically configured to: send the first enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration determined according to the transmission type tothe user equipment.

In combination with the third aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the transmission module isspecifically configured to: send the first enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration to the user equipment through an RRC dedicatedsignaling and/or a physical layer dedicated signaling.

The fourth aspect provides a user equipment, including: a firstdetermining module, configured to determine a first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration according to a channel lossmagnitude with a base station, where a time width occupied by anenhanced transmission occasion is greater than a time width occupied bya non-enhanced transmission occasion; a transmission module, configuredto transmit information according to the first enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration.

In combination with the fourth aspect, in one implementation method, theuser equipment further includes: a second determining module, configuredto determine multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations,where the multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurationsincludes the first enhanced transmission occasion configuration.

In combination with the fourth aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the transmission module isspecifically configured to: receive multiple enhanced transmissionoccasion configurations which correspond to multiple channel lossmagnitude ranges and are sent by the base station; receive atransmission type which corresponds to each channel loss magnitude rangeand is sent by the base station.

In combination with the fourth aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, there is a one-to-onecorrespondence between the multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations and the multiple channel loss magnitude ranges.

In combination with the fourth aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, a transmission typecorresponding to each channel loss magnitude range in the multiplechannel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to at least one informationtype in multiple information types, where the transmission typeindicates a transmission format adopted for the informationtransmission, and the information type indicates an attribute or a typeof the information.

In combination with the fourth aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to each channel loss magnituderange in the multiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to atleast one information type in the multiple information types.

In combination with the fourth aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, a transmission typecorresponding to each channel loss magnitude range in the multiplechannel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to each information type inmultiple information types one by one.

In combination with the fourth aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to each channel loss magnituderange in the multiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to eachinformation type in the multiple information types one by one.

In combination with the fourth aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the second determining moduleis specifically configured to: obtain the multiple enhanced transmissionoccasions, which are preconfigured.

In combination with the fourth aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the first determining moduleis specifically configured to: determine a first channel loss magnituderange which the channel loss magnitude belongs to in multiple channelloss magnitude ranges; and determine the first enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to the first channel loss magnituderange.

In combination with the fourth aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the transmission module isspecifically configured to: receive the first enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration sent by the base station.

In combination with the fourth aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the transmission module isspecifically configured to: perform the information transmission on anenhanced transmission occasion configured by the first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration according to the transmission type.

In combination with the fourth aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the transmission module isspecifically configured to: receive multiple enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration information sent by the base station through oneor multiple signaling of a radio resource control (RRC) broadcastsignaling, an RRC dedicated signaling, a RRC multicast signaling, amedia access control (MAC) control element (CE) signaling and a physicallayer signaling.

In combination with the fourth aspect and the above implementationmethod, in another implementation method, the multiple enhancedtransmission occasion configuration information includes: each enhancedtransmission occasion configuration in the multiple enhancedtransmission occasion configurations; or, each enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration in the multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations and the number of the multiple enhanced transmissionoccasion configurations.

In combination with the fourth aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the transmission module isspecifically configured to: receive the transmission type sent by thebase station through one or multiple signaling of a radio resourcecontrol (RRC) broadcast signaling, an RRC dedicated signaling, an RRCmulticast signaling, a media access control (MAC) control element (CE)signaling and a physical layer signaling.

In combination with the fourth aspect and the above implementationmethods, in another implementation method, the transmission module isspecifically configured to: receive the first enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration sent by the base station through an RRC dedicatedsignaling and/or a physical layer dedicated signaling.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

In order to make the technical solutions of embodiments of the presentapplication more clear, the accompanying drawings used in thedescription of embodiments of the present application are brieflydescribed hereunder. Obviously, the described drawings hereunder aremerely some embodiments of present application. For persons skilled inthe art, other drawings may be obtained based on these drawings withoutany creative work.

FIG. 1 is a schematic flow chart of a method for informationtransmission according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a schematic flow chart of a method for informationtransmission according to another embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic flow chart of a method for informationtransmission according to another embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a schematic flow chart of a method for informationtransmission according to another embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a schematic flow chart of a method for informationtransmission according to another embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 6 is a schematic flow chart of a method for informationtransmission according to another embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 7 is a schematic flow chart of a method for informationtransmission according to another embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 8 is a schematic block diagram of a base station according to anembodiment of the present application;

FIG. 9 is a schematic block diagram of a base station according toanother embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 10 is a schematic block diagram of a user equipment according to anembodiment of the present application;

FIG. 11 is a schematic block diagram of a user equipment according toanother embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 12 is a schematic block diagram of a base station according to anembodiment of the present application;

FIG. 13 is a schematic block diagram of a user equipment according to anembodiment of the present application.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF ILLUSTRATIVE EMBODIMENTS

In order to make the objectives, technical solutions, and advantages ofembodiments of the present application more clear, the technicalsolutions in embodiments of the present application are hereinafterdescribed with reference to the accompanying drawings in embodiments ofthe present application. Obviously, the described embodiments are only apart of embodiments of the present application, rather than allembodiments of the present application. All the other embodimentsobtained by persons of ordinary skill in the art based on embodiments ofthe present application without any creative efforts shall fall withinthe protection scope of the present application.

It should be understood that technical solutions of the presentapplication may be applied in various communication systems, forexample, the global system of mobile communication (GSM) system, thecode division multiple access (CDMA) system, the wideband code divisionmultiple access (WCDMA) system, the general packet radio service (GPRS),the long term evolution (LTE) system, the LTE frequency division duplex(FDD) system, the LTE time division duplex (TDD) system, and theuniversal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS), etc.

It should also be understood that, in embodiments of the presentapplication, the user equipment (UE) may be referred as a terminal, amobile station (MS), and a mobile terminal, etc., the user equipment maycommunicate with one or plural core networks via the radio accessnetwork (RAN), for example, the user equipment may be a mobile phone (orbe referred as a “cellular” phone), a computer with a mobile terminaland etc, for example, the user equipment may also be portable, mini,hand-held, computer built-in or vehicle-mounted mobile devices, theyexchange voice and/or data with the radio access network.

In embodiments of the present application, the base station may be abase station (BTS) in the GSM or CDMA, may also be a base station(NodeB; NB) in the WCDMA, and may also be an evolutional base station(Evolutional NodeB; eNB or e-NodeB) in the LTE, which is not limited inthe present application. In convenience of description, the embodimentshereunder will take a base station (eNB) and a user equipment (UE) as anexample for illustration, however, the method described in the presentapplication may also be similarly applied to communications betweenother entities (for example, a device and a device).

It should also be understood that, in embodiments of the presentapplication, the transmitting means sending and/or receiving. Theinformation may be one or more kind of the following physical channels,signals and messages: a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), anenhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH), a physical randomaccess channel (PRACH), a random access response message, a Msg3 messageto acknowledge random access response, a contention resolution message,a system information, a paging message, a physical control formatindicator channel (PCFICH), a physical hybrid automatic repeat requestindicator channel (PHICH), a unicast physical downlink shared channel(PDSCH), a broadcast or multicast physical downlink shared channel(PDSCH), a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), a physical uplinkcontrol channel (PUCCH), a common reference signal (CRS), a demodulationreference signal (DMRS), a dedicated reference signal (DRS), asynchronization channel (SCH), a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), etc.Accordingly, the information type may be one or more kind of theinformation.

FIG. 1 is a schematic flow chart of a method for informationtransmission according to an embodiment of the present application. Themethod of FIG. 1 may be performed by a base station.

101. Determine a first enhanced transmission occasion configurationaccording to a channel loss magnitude with a user equipment, where atime width occupied by an enhanced transmission occasion is greater thana time width occupied by a non-enhanced transmission occasion.

The channel loss magnitude with a user equipment is a metric magnitudeof a path loss with the user equipment, may be any magnitude orinformation which can reflect the communication quality, channelquality, and quality of service (QoS). A specific form may be any one ormultiple of: a reference signal received power (RSRP) measured by a userequipment; or a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) measured by auser equipment; or a channel quality information (CQI) determined by auser equipment; or a coverage enhancement expected by a user equipment.

The channel losses between a base station and different user equipmentwithin the same cell will be different, due to that positions,environments and product realizations of different user equipment aredifferent. Therefore, coverage enhancement magnitudes needed forreliably sending or receiving signals between a base station anddifferent user equipment are different, i.e., the coverage enhancementmagnitudes expected by user equipment are different. As for a userequipment with a large channel loss and expecting large coverageenhancement, a coverage enhancement may be realized by manners ofsacrificing resources such as repetition, spreading spectrum,transmission time interval bundling (TTI bundling), combining low bitrate coding with low order modulation, etc., that is, enhancing thetransmission occasion.

An enhanced transmission occasion includes a size and a location of atime and/or a frequency resource occupied by information transmission ofrepetition or spread spectrum, and the information is transmitted in theenhanced transmission occasion with M-times repetition transmission orM-multiples spread spectrum modulation in time and/or frequency, areceiving side performs M-multiples information accumulation orM-multiples de-spreading on the signal which is transmitted in oneenhanced transmission occasion by M-times repetition or M-multiplesspread spectrum modulation, thereby improving the reliability ofinformation transmission. The M may be correspondingly determinedaccording to a channel loss magnitude between a UE and base station, ormay be obtained through theoretical computation according to a channelloss magnitude between a UE and base station. In addition, aninformation enhanced processing method is not limited thereto, forexample, for an enhancement of a control channel, the information may beenhanced by performing methods such as an aggregation level or scope ofa control channel element (CCE) or an enhanced control channel element(eCCE), a modulation and coding scheme, and a power configuration.

An enhanced transmission occasion configuration can specificallyconfigure a location and a size of a time frequency resource occupied byan enhanced transmission occasion, and a power configuration adopted foran information transmission in an enhanced transmission occasion.Because an enhanced transmission occasion requires more time frequencyresources to obtain better coverage and transmission reliability, thetime width occupied by an enhanced transmission occasion is greater thanthe time width occupied by a non-enhanced transmission occasion. Thenon-enhanced transmission occasion only includes one transmission timeinterval (TTI) in time, and the information cannot achieve an energyaccumulation within multiple TTIs in the non-enhanced transmissionoccasion. An enhanced transmission occasion includes multiple TTIs intime, and the information can achieve an energy accumulation withinmultiple TTIs in the enhanced transmission occasion, thereby improvingthe reliability of information transmission. In general, the repetitiontransmission, or spectrum-spreading transmission, or TTI bundling of theinformation is typically performed in accordance with an integermultiple, so the size of the time frequency resource occupied by theenhanced transmission occasion is also usually a multiple of the size ofthe time frequency resource occupied by the non-enhanced transmissionoccasion.

Optionally, as an embodiment, an enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration may include at least one of the followings: a timeinterval of an enhanced transmission occasion; a starting time point ofan enhanced transmission occasion; a starting point of a frequencyresource occupied by an enhanced transmission occasion; a size and/orlocation of a frequency resource occupied by an enhanced transmissionoccasion; a size and/or location of a time resource occupied by anenhanced transmission occasion; a power configuration adopted forinformation transmission in an enhanced transmission occasion.

102. Transmit information according to the first enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration.

Information with an enhanced processing, for example, the informationwith M-times repetition or M-multiples spread spectrum modulation, istransmitted on the time frequency resource configured by the firstenhanced transmission occasion configuration, thereby realizing areliable information transmission and a coverage enhancement. Aninformation enhanced processing method is not limited thereto, forexample, for a control channel, the information may be enhanced byperforming methods such as an aggregation level or a scope of a controlchannel element (CCE) or an enhanced control channel element (eCCE), amodulation and coding scheme, and a power configuration. Meanwhile,since the first enhanced transmission occasion configuration isdetermined according to the channel loss magnitude, more time frequencyresources are used when the channel loss magnitude is higher, and fewertime frequency resources are utilized when the channel loss magnitude islower, so that the time frequency resource is reasonably allocated, andthe power consumption is saved.

FIG. 2 is a schematic flow chart of a method for informationtransmission according to another embodiment of the present application.The method of FIG. 2 is performed by a base station. FIG. 2 is a morespecific embodiment of FIG. 1, and gives a specific method fordetermining an enhanced transmission occasion configurationcorresponding to a channel loss magnitude and for informing the enhancedtransmission occasion configuration.

201. Determine multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations,where the multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurationsincludes a first enhanced transmission occasion configuration.

Multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations may be configuredfor a base station through a system predefined manner. Specifically,corresponding relationships among multiple enhanced transmissionoccasion configurations and multiple channel loss magnitude ranges andtransmission types may be predefined. For example, there is a one-to-onecorrespondence between multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations and multiple channel loss magnitude ranges. Atransmission type corresponding to each channel loss magnitude range inmultiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to at least oneinformation type in multiple information types. An enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to each channel loss magnituderange in multiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to at leastone information type in multiple information types. There is aone-to-one correspondence between a transmission type corresponding toeach channel loss magnitude range in multiple channel loss magnituderanges and each information type in multiple information types. There isa one-to-one correspondence between an enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration corresponding to each channel loss magnitude range inmultiple channel loss magnitude ranges and each information type inmultiple information types. A transmission type indicates a transmissionformat adopted for information transmission, and an information typeindicates an attribute or a type of information.

A division of channel loss magnitude ranges may also be predefined bythe system. Multiple channel loss magnitudes may be set in a largemagnitude range, so as to divide a large magnitude range into multiplechannel loss magnitude ranges. For example, 5 dB, 10 dB, 15 dB are takenfrom a magnitude range from 0 dB to 20 dB, the magnitude range isdivided into ranges from 0 dB to 5 dB, from 6 dB to 10 dB, from 11 dB to15 dB, and from 16 dB to 20 dB. It should be understood that, a methodfor dividing channel loss magnitude ranges in the present application isnot limited thereto.

Optionally, as an embodiment, Table 1 illustrates correspondingrelationships among channel loss magnitude ranges, transmission types,and enhanced transmission occasion configurations. There is a one-to-onecorrespondence between channel loss magnitude ranges and transmissiontypes, and there is a one-to-one correspondence between transmissiontypes and enhanced transmission occasion configurations, thus, there isa one-to-one correspondence between multiple enhanced transmissionoccasion configurations and multiple channel loss magnitude ranges.

TABLE 1 Corresponding relationships among channel loss magnitude ranges,transmission types, and enhanced transmission occasion configurationsEnhanced Channel loss transmission occasion magnitude range Transmissiontype configuration Range 1: M1-times repetition Enhanced transmissionchannel loss transmission, and/or occasion configuration 1 magnitude ≤ AdB adopt a spreading factor with a length of M1 Range 2: M2-timesrepetition Enhanced transmission A dB < channel transmission, and/oroccasion configuration 2 loss magnitude ≤ B dB adopt a spreading factorwith a length of M2 Range 3: M3-times repetition Enhanced transmission BdB < channel transmission, and/or occasion configuration 3 lossmagnitude adopt a spreading factor with a length of M3

The range division in Table 1 is merely an example, and may not belimited to three ranges. The number of repetition transmission and/orthe spreading factors M1, M2 and M3 in the transmission types aredifferent with each other, and M1<M2<M3. A spreading factor is aspreading multiple for performing spectrum-spreading modulation. Atransmission type is not limited to the repetition transmission andspectrum-spreading modulation, and may also include one or multiple thefollowings: TTI bundling, a spreading code index, an aggregation levelor scope of a control channel element (CCE) or an enhanced controlchannel element (eCCE), a modulation and coding scheme, a powerconfiguration, etc. It should be noted that a part or all of thecontents included in a transmission type corresponding to a channel lossmagnitude range may be included in an enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration corresponding to the channel loss magnitude range. If allcontents included in a transmission type corresponding to a channel lossmagnitude range are entirely included in an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to the channel loss magnituderange, a transmission type may not be defined in fact; at this point,only a corresponding relationship between the channel loss magnituderange and the enhanced transmission occasion configuration exists.

After multiple channel loss magnitude ranges are determined, atransmission type which can ensure the reliability of informationtransmission may be determined according to a weight of each channelloss magnitude range. The weight of the channel loss magnitude range maybe determined according to a boundary magnitude or an average magnitudeof the channel loss magnitude range, for example, the weight of therange from 6 dB to 10 dB may be 6 dB, 10 dB or 8 dB. It should beunderstood that the determining the weight of the channel loss magnituderange is not limited to the method. The greater the weight of thechannel loss magnitude range, the more number of repetition transmissionof the corresponding transmission type, and/or the longer length of thespreading factor, and/or the higher aggregation level, and/or the largersize of the TTI bundling, etc., and vice versa.

In the case without considering the information type, the size and thelocation of the time frequency resource needs to be occupied can beknown according to the transmission type which can ensure thereliability of information transmission. Moreover, an appropriate powerconfiguration is determined in combination with the weight of thechannel loss magnitude range. An enhanced transmission occasion isdetermined according to the size and the location of the time frequencyresource as well as the power configuration and, thus, an enhancedtransmission occasion configuration is determined.

Optionally, as another embodiment, considering the information type, theinformation transmission of different information types may apply thesame corresponding relationship among the channel loss magnitude range,the transmission type and the enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration. Table 2 illustrates that the information transmission ofan information type x, an information type y and an information type zadopts the same corresponding relationship among the channel lossmagnitude range, the transmission type and the enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration.

TABLE 2 Corresponding relationships among channel loss magnitude ranges,information types, transmission types, and enhanced transmissionoccasion configurations Enhanced transmission Channel loss InformationTransmission occasion magnitude range type type configuration Range 1:Information Transmission Enhanced channel loss type x type 1transmission magnitude ≤ A dB Information occasion type y configuration1 Information type z Range 2: Information Transmission Enhanced A dB <channel type x type 2 transmission loss magnitude ≤ Information occasionB dB type y configuration 2 Information type z Range 3: InformationTransmission Enhanced B dB < channel type x type 3 transmission lossmagnitude Information occasion type y configuration 3 Information type z

It should be understood that the range division in Table 2 is merely anexample, and may not be limited to three ranges. The information type x,the information type y, and the information type z are merely anexemplary division, and the number of information types is not limitedto three. Extendably, at least one information type in multipleinformation types may also have corresponding relationships. That is, atransmission type corresponding to each channel loss magnitude range inmultiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to at least oneinformation type in multiple information types; an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to each channel loss magnituderange in multiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to at leastone information type in multiple information types. It should be notedthat a part of or all contents included in a transmission typecorresponding to a channel loss magnitude range may be included in anenhanced transmission occasion configuration corresponding to thechannel loss magnitude range. If all contents included in a transmissiontype corresponding to a channel loss magnitude range are entirelyincluded in an enhanced transmission occasion configurationcorresponding to the channel loss magnitude range, a transmission typemay not be defined in fact; at this point, only a correspondingrelationship between the channel loss magnitude range and the enhancedtransmission occasion configuration exists.

The information type may belong to any one of the type sets below: aphysical channel type set; a signal type set; a message type set. Thephysical channel type set may include: a physical downlink controlchannel (PDCCH), an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH),a physical random access channel (PRACH), a physical control formatindicator channel (PCFICH), a physical hybrid automatic repeat requestindicator channel (PHICH), a unicast physical downlink shared channel(PDSCH), a broadcast or a multicast physical downlink shared channel(PDSCH), a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), a physical uplinkcontrol channel (PUCCH), a synchronization channel (SCH), a physicalbroadcast channel (PBCH), etc. The signal type set may include: a commonreference signal (CRS), a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), adedicated reference signal (DRS), etc. The message type set may include:a random access response message, a Msg3 message to acknowledge randomaccess response, a contention resolution message, a system information,a paging message, etc.

In this embodiment, the corresponding relationship among a channel lossmagnitude range, a transmission type and an enhanced transmissionoccasion is the same with the corresponding relationship of the three inTable 1. Reference may also be made to Table 1 for the method fordetermining the corresponding relationship, which will not be repeatedherein.

Optionally, as another embodiment, considering the information type,different information types may apply different correspondingrelationships among channel loss magnitude ranges, transmission typesand enhanced transmission occasion configurations. Table 3 illustratesthe information transmission of an information type x, information typey and information type z adopts different corresponding relationshipamong channel loss magnitude ranges, transmission types and enhancedtransmission occasion configurations.

TABLE 3 Corresponding relationships among channel loss magnitude ranges,information types, transmission types, and enhanced transmissionoccasion configurations Enhanced transmission Channel loss magnituderange Information type Transmission type occasion configuration Range 1:Information type x Transmission Enhanced transmission Channel lossmagnitude ≤ A dB type x1 occasion configuration x1 Range 2: Informationtype x Transmission Enhanced transmission A dB < Channel loss magnitude≤ type x2 occasion configuration x2 B dB Range 3: Information type xTransmission Enhanced transmission B dB < Channel loss magnitude type x3occasion configuration x3 Range 1: Information type y TransmissionEnhanced transmission Channel loss magnitude ≤ A dB type y1 occasionconfiguration y1 Range 2: Information type y Transmission Enhancedtransmission A dB < Channel loss magnitude ≤ type y2 occasionconfiguration y2 B dB Range 3: Information type y Transmission Enhancedtransmission B dB < Channel loss magnitude type y3 occasionconfiguration y3 Range 1: Information type z Transmission Enhancedtransmission Channel loss magnitude ≤ A dB type z1 occasionconfiguration z1 Range 2: Information type z Transmission Enhancedtransmission A dB < Channel loss magnitude ≤ type z2 occasionconfiguration z2 B dB Range 3: Information type z Transmission Enhancedtransmission B dB < Channel loss magnitude type z3 occasionconfiguration z3

It should be understood that the range division in Table 3 is merely anexample, and may not be limited to three ranges. The information type x,the information type y, and the information type z are merely anexemplary division, and the number of information types is not limitedto three. A transmission type corresponding to each channel lossmagnitude range in multiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds toeach information type in multiple information types; an enhancedtransmission occasion configuration corresponding to each channel lossmagnitude range in multiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds toeach information type in multiple information types. It should be notedthat a part or all of the contents included in a transmission typecorresponding to a channel loss magnitude range may be included in anenhanced transmission occasion configuration corresponding to thechannel loss magnitude range. If all of the contents included in atransmission type corresponding to a channel loss magnitude range areentirely included in an enhanced transmission occasion configurationcorresponding to the channel loss magnitude range, a transmission typemay not be defined in fact; at this point, only a correspondingrelationship between the channel loss magnitude range and the enhancedtransmission occasion configuration exists.

The information type may belong to any one of the type sets below: aphysical channel type set; a signal type set; a message type set. Thephysical channel type set may include: a physical downlink controlchannel (PDCCH), an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH),a physical random access channel (PRACH), a physical control formatindicator channel (PCFICH), a physical hybrid automatic repeat requestindicator channel (PHICH), a unicast physical downlink shared channel(PDSCH), a broadcast or a multicast physical downlink shared channel(PDSCH), a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), a physical uplinkcontrol channel (PUCCH), a synchronization channel (SCH), a physicalbroadcast channel (PBCH), etc. The signal type set may include: a commonreference signal (CRS), a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), adedicated reference signal (DRS), etc. The message type set may include:a random access response message, a Msg3 message to acknowledge randomaccess response, a contention resolution message, a system information,a paging message, etc.

In this embodiment, each information type has a specific correspondingrelationship among a channel loss magnitude range, a transmission typeand an enhanced transmission occasion. A system needs to respectivelyand separately configure a corresponding relationship among a channelloss magnitude range, a transmission type and an enhanced transmissionoccasion for different information types. There is still the one-to-onecorrespondence between the transmission types and the enhancedtransmission occasion configurations. However, the same channel lossmagnitude range may correspond to different transmission types andenhanced transmission occasion configurations.

202. Send multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurationscorresponding to multiple channel loss magnitude ranges to the userequipment.

After determining a corresponding relationship between multiple channelloss magnitude ranges and multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations, sending the corresponding relationship to a userequipment. Specifically, multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations corresponding to multiple channel loss magnitude rangesmay be sent to the user equipment, and a transmission type correspondingto each channel loss magnitude range may be further sent to a userequipment, so that a corresponding relationship among a channel lossmagnitude range, a transmission type and an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration can be established at a UE side.

More specifically, an actual sending means may be: sending multipleenhanced transmission occasion configuration information and/ortransmission types to a user equipment through one or multiple of aradio resource control (RRC) broadcast signaling (such as a systeminformation block (SIB) or a master information block (MIB)), an RRCdedicated signaling, an RRC multicast signaling, a media access control(MAC) control element (CE) signaling and a physical layer signaling. Acorresponding relationship among a channel loss magnitude range, atransmission type and an information type may be determined through asending sequence, or through a label.

Optionally, as an embodiment, in the case of without considering ainformation type, the pseudo code hereunder illustrates providing anenhanced transmission occasion (ETO) configuration to a UE through anRRC broadcast signaling:

ETO-ConfigCommon::= {SEQUENCE (SIZE (1.. ETONumber)) OF ETOInfo ETOInfo::={SEQUENCE a time interval of enhanced transmission occasions T astarting time point of a first enhanced transmission occasion a startingpoint of a frequency resource occupied by an enhanced transmissionoccasion a size and/or a location of a frequency resource occupied by anenhanced transmission occasion a size and/or a location of a timeresource occupied by an enhanced transmission occasion a powerconfiguration adopted for the information transmission in an enhancedtransmission occasion } }

In the pseudo code, the ETO-ConfigCommon does not indicate theinformation type, i.e. the information type is not taken intoconsideration in this embodiment. It can be also understood as that allthe information types may apply the same corresponding relationshipamong a channel loss magnitude range, a transmission type and anenhanced transmission occasion configuration. The ETONumber indicatesthe number of enhanced transmission occasions, equivalently, indicatesthe number of enhanced transmission occasion configurations, i.e. in theprocess of informing multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations to a UE by a base station, the number of multipleenhanced transmission configurations is also informed to the UEsimultaneously. In the ETOInfo, a time interval between multipleenhanced transmission occasions, a starting time point and time lengthof each enhanced transmission occasion, a starting point and a size of afrequency resource occupied by each enhanced transmission occasion and apower configuration adopted for information transmission in eachenhanced transmission occasion are specifically configured. ETOInfo mayinclude any one or multiple of the above configuration items. Similarly,a transmission type may also be sent to the UE, therefore, theone-to-one correspondence as shown in Table 1 in Step 201 is establishedat the UE side.

Optionally, as another embodiment, in the case of considering theinformation type, the pseudo code hereunder illustrates configuring thesame enhanced transmission occasion to the information type x, theinformation type y and the information type z through an RRC broadcastsignaling:

ETO-ConfigCommon_x_y_z::= {SEQUENCE (SIZE (1.. ETONumber)) OF ETOInfoETOInfo ::={SEQUENCE a time interval of enhanced transmission occasionsT a starting time point of a first enhanced transmission occasion astarting point of a frequency resource occupied by an enhancedtransmission occasion a size and/or a location of a frequency resourceoccupied by an enhanced transmission occasion a size and/or a locationof a time resource occupied by an enhanced transmission occasion a powerconfiguration adopted for the information transmission in an enhancedtransmission occasion } }

In the pseudo code, the ETO-ConfigCommon indicates the information typex, the information type y, and the information type z, i.e. theinformation type is taken into consideration in this embodiment, and thesame corresponding relationship among a channel loss magnitude range, atransmission type and an enhanced transmission occasion configuration isconfigured for different information types. The ETONumber indicates thenumber of enhanced transmission occasions, equivalently, indicates thenumber of enhanced transmission occasion configurations, i.e. in theprocess of informing multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations to a UE by a base station, the number of multipleenhanced transmission configurations is also informed to the UEsimultaneously. In the ETOInfo, a time interval between multipleenhanced transmission occasions, a starting time point and time lengthof each enhanced transmission occasion, a starting point and a size of afrequency resource occupied by each enhanced transmission occasion and apower configuration adopted for information transmission in eachenhanced transmission occasion are specifically configured. ETOInfo mayinclude any one or multiple of the above configuration items. Similarly,a transmission type may also be sent to the UE, therefore, theone-to-one correspondence as shown in Table 2 in Step 201 is establishedat the UE side.

Optionally, as another embodiment, in the case of considering theinformation type, the following three sections of pseudo coderespectively illustrate configuring an enhanced transmission occasion tothe information type x, the information type y and the information typez, respectively, through an RRC broadcast signaling:

ETO-ConfigCommon_x::= {SEQUENCE (SIZE (1.. ETONumber)) OF ETOInfoETOInfo ::={SEQUENCE a time interval of enhanced transmission occasionsT a starting time point of a first enhanced transmission occasion astarting point of a frequency resource occupied by an enhancedtransmission occasion a size and/or a location of a frequency resourceoccupied by an enhanced transmission occasion a size and/or a locationof a time resource occupied by an enhanced transmission occasion a powerconfiguration adopted for the information transmission in an enhancedtransmission occasion } } ETO-ConfigCommon_y::= {SEQUENCE (SIZE (1..ETONumber)) OF ETOInfo ETOInfo ::={SEQUENCE a time interval of enhancedtransmission occasions T a starting time point of a first enhancedtransmission occasion a starting point of a frequency resource occupiedby an enhanced transmission occasion a size and/or a location of afrequency resource occupied by an enhanced transmission occasion a sizeand/or a location of a time resource occupied by an enhancedtransmission occasion a power configuration adopted for the informationtransmission in an enhanced transmission occasion } }ETO-ConfigCommon_z::= {SEQUENCE (SIZE (1.. ETONumber)) OF ETOInfoETOInfo ::={SEQUENCE a time interval of enhanced transmission occasionsT a starting time point of a first enhanced transmission occasion astarting point of a frequency resource occupied by an enhancedtransmission occasion a size and/or a location of a frequency resourceoccupied by an enhanced transmission occasion a size and/or a locationof a time resource occupied by an enhanced transmission occasion a powerconfiguration adopted for the information transmission in an enhancedtransmission occasion } }

In three sections of the pseudo code, the ETO-ConfigCommon indicates theinformation type x, the information type y and the information type, zrespectively, i.e. the information type is taken into consideration inthis embodiment, and different corresponding relationships among achannel loss magnitude range, a transmission type and an enhancedtransmission occasion configuration is configured for multiple differentinformation types. The ETONumber indicates the number of enhancedtransmission occasions, equivalently, indicates the number of enhancedtransmission occasion configurations, i.e. in the process of informingmultiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations to a UE by a basestation, the number of multiple enhanced transmission configurations isalso informed to the UE simultaneously. In the ETOInfo, a time intervalbetween multiple enhanced transmission occasions, a starting time pointand time length of each enhanced transmission occasion, a starting pointand a size of a frequency resource occupied by each enhancedtransmission occasion and a power configuration adopted for informationtransmission in each enhanced transmission occasion are specificallyconfigured. ETOInfo may include any one or multiple of the aboveconfiguration items. Similarly, a transmission type may also be sent tothe UE, therefore, the one-to-one correspondence as shown in Table 3 inStep 201 is established at the UE side.

Therefore, according to the method for information transmission in thepresent application, a corresponding relationship among a channel lossmagnitude range, a transmission type and an enhanced transmissionoccasion can be configured at a base station side through a systempredefined manner. Different channel loss magnitude ranges correspond todifferent enhanced transmission occasion configurations, more timefrequency resources and greater powers are used in a higher channel lossmagnitude range to ensure a reliable information transmission, and fewertime frequency resources and smaller powers are used in a lower channelloss magnitude range, so that the time frequency resource allocation isoptimized, the complexity of system implementation is reduced, and thepower consumption is saved.

FIG. 3 is a schematic flow chart of a method for informationtransmission according to another embodiment of the present application.The method of FIG. 3 is performed by a base station. FIG. 3 is a morespecific embodiment of FIG. 2, and gives a specific method fordetermining a first enhanced transmission occasion and performinginformation transmission.

301. Determine a first channel loss magnitude range which the channelloss magnitude belongs to in multiple channel loss magnitude ranges.

First, determine a channel loss magnitude with a UE, the specificdetermining method is not limited in embodiments of the presentapplication, the channel loss magnitude may be obtained by a basestation through determining, and may also be obtained by a UE throughdetermining and reporting to the base station, for example, a referencesignal received power (RSRP) measured by the UE; or a reference signalreceived quality (RSRQ) measured by the UE; or a channel qualityinformation (CQI) determined by the UE; or a coverage enhancementexpected by the UE, etc.

After determining the channel loss magnitude, the base stationdetermines a first channel loss magnitude range including the channelloss magnitude in multiple channel loss magnitude ranges predefined bythe system. For example, in combination with division examples of thechannel loss magnitude ranges in step 201, assuming that the channelloss magnitude is 3 dB, then the first channel loss magnitude rangeranges from 0 dB to 5 dB.

302. Determine a first enhanced transmission occasion configurationcorresponding to the first channel loss magnitude range.

The first enhanced transmission occasion configuration corresponding tothe first channel loss magnitude range is determined according to acorresponding relationship among a channel loss magnitude range, atransmission type, an information type and an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration in step 201. The information type is a built-inattribute or type of to-be-transmitted information.

Optionally, as an embodiment, in the case of without considering theinformation type, the first enhanced transmission occasion configurationmay be determined with reference to the corresponding relationships inTable 1 in step 201. For example, the first channel loss magnitude rangeis: AdB<channel loss magnitudes≤B dB, accordingly, the first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration is the enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration 2.

Optionally, as another embodiment, in the case of considering theinformation type, the first enhanced transmission occasion configurationmay be determined with reference to the corresponding relationships inTable 2 in step 201. The corresponding relationships among channel lossmagnitude ranges, transmission types and enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations in Table 1 and Table 2 may be the same. That is,different information types may be configured with the same enhancedtransmission occasion. For example, for the different information typesx and y of to-be-transmitted information, the first channel lossmagnitude range is: channel loss magnitudes≤A dB, accordingly, the firstenhanced transmission occasion configuration is the enhancedtransmission occasion configuration 1.

Optionally, as another embodiment, in the case of considering theinformation type, the first enhanced transmission occasion configurationmay be determined with reference to the corresponding relationships inTable 3 in step 201. That is, different information types may beconfigured with different enhanced transmission occasions, respectively.Therefore, before determining an enhanced transmission occasion, besidesdetermining a first channel loss magnitude range, it also needs todetermine an information type of to-be-transmitted information. Theinformation type may be determined by the base station, and may also bereported to the base station through the UE. For example, it isdetermined that the information type of the to-be-transmittedinformation is x, the first channel loss magnitude range is: BdB<channelloss magnitude, accordingly, the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration is the enhanced transmission occasion configuration x3, ifthe information type of the to-be-transmitted information is y,accordingly, the first enhanced transmission occasion configuration isthe enhanced transmission occasion configuration y3.

303. Perform information transmission on an enhanced transmissionoccasion configured by the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration according to the transmission type.

First, the base station determines the transmission type correspondingto the first enhanced transmission occasion according to thecorrespondence in the step 302. Then, transmit the enhancement-processedinformation on the time frequency resource configured by the firstenhanced transmission occasion configuration, for example, theinformation is transmitted on a resource of M-multiples time width or ofM-multiples frequency width via M-times repetition, or the M-multiplesspread spectrum modulation, or the M-multiples TTI bundling, therebyrealizing a reliable information transmission and a coverageenhancement. The information enhanced processing method is not limitedthereto, for example, for a control channel, the information enhancementmay be performed through methods such as an aggregation level or a scopeof a control channel element (CCE) or an enhanced control channelelement (eCCE), a modulation and coding scheme, and power configuration.Different enhanced processing methods of the information may beinterpreted as different transmission types.

Meanwhile, since a first enhanced transmission occasion configuration isdetermined according to a channel loss magnitude, more time frequencyresources are used when channel loss magnitude is higher, and fewer timefrequency resources are utilized when channel loss magnitude is lower,so that a time frequency resource is reasonably allocated, and powerconsumption is saved.

FIG. 4 is a schematic flow chart of a method for informationtransmission according to another embodiment of the present application.The method of FIG. 4 is performed by a base station. FIG. 4 is a morespecific embodiment of FIG. 1, and gives a specific method fordetermining a first enhanced transmission occasion through a non-systempredefined manner.

401. Determine a transmission type according to a channel loss magnitudeor a channel loss magnitude range which the channel loss magnitudebelongs to.

First, determine a channel loss magnitude with a UE, the specificdetermining method is not limited in embodiments of the presentapplication, the channel loss magnitude may be obtained by a basestation through determining, and may also be obtained by a UE throughdetermining and reporting to the base station, for example, a referencesignal received power (RSRP) measured by the UE; or a reference signalreceived quality (RSRQ) measured by the UE; or a channel qualityinformation (CQI) determined by the UE; or a coverage enhancementexpected by the UE, etc.

After determining the channel loss magnitude, the base stationdetermines, according to the channel loss magnitude size, a number M ofrepetition transmission, or a multiple M of spectrum-spreading, or a TTIbundling size, or a CCE/eCCE aggregation level, or a modulation andcoding scheme, or a power configuration, or a spreading code index,which can ensure a reliable information transmission. That is, determinea suitable transmission type.

Or, multiple channel loss magnitude ranges may be divided, and determinea range which the channel loss magnitude belongs to. A number M ofrepetition transmission, or a multiple M of spectrum-spreading, or a TTIbundling size, or a CCE/eCCE aggregation level, or a modulation andcoding scheme, or a power configuration, or a spreading code index,which can ensure a reliable information transmission, is determinedaccording to the weight of the channel loss magnitude range. That is,determine a suitable transmission type. Where, the weight of the channelloss magnitude range may be determined according to a boundary magnitudeor an average magnitude of the channel loss magnitude range, forexample, the weight of the range from 6 dB to 10 dB may be 6 dB, 10 dBor 8 dB. It should be understood that the determining the weight of thechannel loss magnitude range is not limited to the method. The greaterweight of the channel loss magnitude range, the more the number ofrepetition transmission of the corresponding transmission type, and/orthe longer the length of the spreading factor, and/or the higher theaggregation level, and/or the larger the size of the TTI bundling, etc.,and vice versa.

402. Determine a first enhanced transmission occasion configurationaccording to a transmission type and an information type of theinformation.

A size of a time frequency resource occupied by the informationtransmission may be determined according to the transmission type. Alocation of the time frequency resource occupied by the informationtransmission may be determined according to an information type of theinformation. In addition, a coverage enhancement needed for thetransmission may also be determined according to a channel lossmagnitude, therefore, a power needed for the information transmission isdetermined. The first enhanced transmission occasion configuration maybe determined through one or multiple of the methods. That is, theenhanced transmission occasion configuration includes at least one ofthe followings: a time interval of enhanced transmission occasions; astarting time point of an enhanced transmission occasion; a startingpoint of a frequency resource occupied by an enhanced transmissionoccasion; a size and/or a location of a frequency resource occupied byan enhanced transmission occasion; a size and/or location of a timeresource occupied by an enhanced transmission occasion; a powerconfiguration adopted for the information transmission in an enhancedtransmission occasion.

The information type may belong to any one of the type sets below: aphysical channel type set; a signal type set; a message type set. Thephysical channel type set may include: a physical downlink controlchannel (PDCCH), an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH),a physical random access channel (PRACH), a physical control formatindicator channel (PCFICH), a physical hybrid automatic repeat requestindicator channel (PHICH), a unicast physical downlink shared channel(PDSCH), a broadcast or a multicast physical downlink shared channel(PDSCH), a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), a physical uplinkcontrol channel (PUCCH), a synchronization channel (SCH), a physicalbroadcast channel (PBCH), etc. The signal type set may include: a commonreference signal (CRS), a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), adedicated reference signal (DRS), etc. The message type set may include:a random access response message, a Msg3 message to acknowledge randomaccess response, a contention resolution message, a system information,a paging message, etc.

403 a, send the first enhanced transmission occasion configuration whichis determined according to the transmission type to the user equipment.

The first enhanced transmission occasion configuration is sent to theuser equipment through an RRC dedicated signaling and/or a physicallayer dedicated signaling. For example, taking the RRC dedicatedsignaling as an example, in the case of without considering theinformation type, the first enhanced transmission occasion configurationmay be sent in the form of being represented by the pseudo codehereunder:

ETO-ConfigDedicated::= {SEQUENCE a time interval of enhancedtransmission occasions T a starting time point of a first enhancedtransmission occasion a starting point of a frequency resource occupiedby an enhanced transmission occasion a size and/or a location of afrequency resource occupied by an enhanced transmission occasion a sizeand/or a location of a time resource occupied by an enhancedtransmission occasion a power configuration adopted for the informationtransmission in an enhanced transmission occasion }

Optionally, in the case of considering the information type, referencemay be made to the embodiment of step 202 in FIG. 2 for the pseudo codeformat of the RRC dedicated signaling, which will not be repeatedherein.

403 b, perform information transmission on an enhanced transmissionoccasion configured by the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration according to the transmission type.

Transmit the enhancement-processed information on the time frequencyresource configured by the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration, for example, information is transmitted on a resource ofM-multiples time width or of M-multiples frequency width via M-timesrepetition, or M-multiples spread spectrum modulation, or M-multiplesTTI bundling, thereby realizing a reliable information transmission anda coverage enhancement. The information enhanced processing method isnot limited thereto, for example, for a control channel, the informationenhancement may be performed through methods such as an aggregationlevel or a scope of a control channel element (CCE) or an enhancedcontrol channel element (eCCE), a modulation and coding scheme, andpower configuration. Different enhanced processing methods of theinformation may be interpreted as different transmission types.

The methods for implementing two steps 403 a and 403 b include methodsas follows: perform 403 a, but does not perform 403 b; or, does notperform 403 a, but perform 403 b; or, perform 403 a, and perform 403 b.The implementations of these two steps have no particular order.

Since the first enhanced transmission occasion configuration isdetermined according to the channel loss magnitude, more time frequencyresources are used when the channel loss magnitude is higher, and fewertime frequency resources are utilized when the channel loss magnitude islower, so that the time frequency resource is reasonably allocated, andthe power consumption is saved.

FIG. 5 is a schematic flow chart of a method for informationtransmission according to another embodiment of the present application.The method of FIG. 5 is performed by a user equipment.

501. Determine a first enhanced transmission occasion configurationaccording to a channel loss magnitude with a base station, where a timewidth occupied by an enhanced transmission occasion is greater than atime width occupied by a non-enhanced transmission occasion.

The channel loss magnitude with a base station is a metric magnitude ofa path loss with the base station, may be any magnitude or informationwhich can reflect the communication quality, channel quality, andquality of service (QoS). The specific form may be any one or multipleof: a reference signal received power (RSRP) measured by the userequipment; or a reference signal received quality (RSRQ) measured by theuser equipment; or a channel quality information (CQI) determined by theuser equipment; or a coverage enhancement expected by the userequipment.

The channel losses between a base station and different user equipmentwithin the same cell will be different, due to that the positions, theenvironments and the product realizations of different user equipmentare different. Therefore, coverage enhancement magnitudes needed forreliably sending or receiving signals between a base station anddifferent user equipment are different, i.e., the coverage enhancementmagnitudes expected by user equipment are different. As for a userequipment with large channel loss and expecting large coverageenhancement, a coverage enhancement may be realized by manners ofsacrificing resources such as repeating, spreading spectrum, TTIbundling, combining low bit rate coding with low order modulation, etc.,that is, enhancing the transmission occasion.

An enhanced transmission occasion includes a size and a location of atime and/or a frequency resource occupied by a information transmissionof repetition or spread spectrum or a TTI bundling, and the informationis transmitted in the enhanced transmission occasion with M-timesrepetition transmission or M-multiples spread spectrum modulation intime and/or frequency, a receiving side performs M-multiples informationaccumulation or M-multiples de-spreading on the signal which istransmitted in one enhanced transmission occasion by M-times repetitionor M-multiples spread spectrum modulation, thereby improving thereliability of information transmission. An information enhancedprocessing method is not limited thereto, for example, for anenhancement of a control channel, the information may be enhanced byperforming through methods such as an aggregation level or scope of acontrol channel element (CCE) or an enhanced control channel element(eCCE), a modulation and coding scheme, and a power configuration.

An enhanced transmission occasion configuration can specificallyconfigure a location and a size of a time frequency resource occupied byan enhanced transmission occasion, and a power configuration adopted foran information transmission in an enhanced transmission occasion.Because an enhanced transmission occasion requires more time frequencyresources to obtain better coverage and transmission reliability, thetime width occupied by an enhanced transmission occasion is greater thanthe time width occupied by a non-enhanced transmission occasion. Thenon-enhanced transmission occasion only includes one transmission timeinterval (TTI) in time, and the information cannot achieve an energyaccumulation within multiple TTIs in the non-enhanced transmissionoccasion. An enhanced transmission occasion includes multiple TTIs intime, and the information can achieve an energy accumulation withinmultiple TTIs in the enhanced transmission occasion, thereby improvingthe reliability of information transmission. In general, the repetitiontransmission, or spectrum-spreading transmission, or TTI bundling of theinformation is typically performed in accordance with an integermultiple, so the size of the time frequency resource occupied by theenhanced transmission occasion is also usually a multiple of the size ofthe time frequency resource occupied by the non-enhanced transmissionoccasion.

Optionally, as an embodiment, an enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration may include at least one of the followings: a timeinterval of enhanced transmission occasions; a starting time point of anenhanced transmission occasion; a starting point of a frequency resourceoccupied by an enhanced transmission occasion; a size and/or a locationof a frequency resource occupied by an enhanced transmission occasion; asize and/or location of a time resource occupied by an enhancedtransmission occasion; a power configuration adopted for the informationtransmission in an enhanced transmission occasion.

502. Transmit information according to the first enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration.

First, the UE needs to determine a transmission type corresponding tothe first enhanced transmission occasion. Then, the UE transmits, forexample, information on the time frequency resource configured by thefirst enhanced transmission occasion configuration according to thetransmission type, via the M-times repetition or the M-multiples spreadspectrum modulation, thereby realizing a reliable informationtransmission and a coverage enhancement. The information enhancedprocessing method is not limited thereto, for example, for a controlchannel, the information enhancement may be performed through methodssuch as an aggregation level or a scope of a control channel element(CCE) or an enhanced control channel element (eCCE), a modulation andcoding scheme, and power configuration. Meanwhile, since the firstenhanced transmission occasion configuration is determined according tothe channel loss magnitude, more time frequency resources are used whenthe channel loss magnitude is higher, and fewer time frequency resourcesare utilized when the channel loss magnitude is lower, so that the timefrequency resource is reasonably allocated, and the power consumption issaved.

FIG. 6 is a schematic flow chart of a method for informationtransmission according to another embodiment of the present application.The method of FIG. 6 is performed by a UE. FIG. 6 is a more specificembodiment of FIG. 5, and gives a specific method for determining anenhanced transmission occasion configuration corresponding to a channelloss magnitude in FIG. 5.

601. Determine multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations,where the multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurationsincludes a first enhanced transmission occasion configuration.

Before determining the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration according to the channel loss magnitude with the basestation in step 501 of FIG. 5 above, multiple enhanced transmissionoccasion configurations may be determined at the UE side firstly, thereare two methods: obtaining multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations which are preconfigured; or receiving multiple enhancedtransmission occasion configurations which correspond to multiplechannel loss magnitude ranges and are sent by the base station.

Optionally, as an embodiment, multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations may be configured for the UE through the systempredefined manner. Specifically, corresponding relationships amongmultiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations and multiplechannel loss magnitude ranges and transmission types may be predefined.For example, there is a one-to-one correspondence between multipleenhanced transmission occasion configurations and multiple channel lossmagnitude ranges; a transmission type corresponding to each channel lossmagnitude range in multiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds toat least one information type in multiple information types; an enhancedtransmission occasion configuration corresponding to each channel lossmagnitude range in multiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds toat least one information type in multiple information types; there is aone-to-one correspondence between a transmission type corresponding toeach channel loss magnitude range in multiple channel loss magnituderanges and each information type in multiple information types; andthere is a one-to-one correspondence between an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to each channel loss magnituderange in multiple channel loss magnitude ranges and each informationtype in multiple information types. The UE may obtain multiple enhancedtransmission occasion configurations predefined by the system locally.The transmission type indicates a transmission format adopted for theinformation transmission, and the information type indicates anattribute or a type of the information. The information type may belongto any one of the type sets below: a physical channel type set; a signaltype set; a message type set. The physical channel type set may include:a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH), an enhanced physicaldownlink control channel (ePDCCH), a physical random access channel(PRACH), a physical control format indicator channel (PCFICH), aphysical hybrid automatic repeat request indicator channel (PHICH), aunicast physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), a broadcast or amulticast physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), a physical uplinkshared channel (PUSCH), a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), asynchronization channel (SCH), a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), etc.The signal type set may include: a common reference signal (CRS), ademodulation reference signal (DMRS), a dedicated reference signal(DRS), etc. The message type set may include: a random access responsemessage, a Msg3 message to acknowledge random access response, acontention resolution message, a system information, a paging message,etc.

The division of channel loss magnitude ranges may also be predefined bythe system, multiple channel loss magnitudes may be set in a largemagnitude range, so as to divide the large magnitude range into multiplechannel loss magnitude ranges. For example, 5 dB, 10 dB, 15 dB are takenfrom a magnitude range from 0 dB to 20 dB, the magnitude range isdivided into ranges from 0 dB to 5 dB, from 6 dB to 10 dB, from 11 dB to15 dB, and from 16 dB to 20 dB. It should be understood that, the methodfor dividing channel loss magnitude ranges in the present application isnot limited thereto.

For the corresponding relationships, reference may be made toembodiments in step 201 and, in particular, to Table 1, Table 2 andTable 3, which will not be repeated herein.

Optionally, as another embodiment, receive multiple enhancedtransmission occasion configurations which correspond to multiplechannel loss magnitude ranges and are sent by the base station, and/orreceive transmission types which correspond to each channel lossmagnitude range and are sent by the base station, so that acorresponding relationship among a channel loss magnitude range, atransmission type and an enhanced transmission occasion configurationcan be established at a UE side.

Specifically, the actual receiving means may be: receiving multipleenhanced transmission occasion configuration information and/ortransmission types sent by the base station through one or multiple ofsignaling of a radio resource control (RRC) broadcast signaling (such asa system information block (SIB) or a master information block (MIB)),an RRC dedicated signaling, an RRC multicast signaling, a media accesscontrol (MAC) control element (CE) signaling and a physical layersignaling. The corresponding relationship among the channel lossmagnitude range, the transmission type and the information type may bedetermined through a sending sequence, or through a label.

More specifically, for example, receive the enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration sent by the base station through the RRCdedicated signaling, for the pseudo code formats of the RRC dedicatedsignaling, reference may be made to the several pseudo code formats ofthe RRC signaling in step 202 in FIG. 2, which will not be repeatedherein.

602, determine a first channel loss magnitude range which the channelloss magnitude belongs to in the multiple channel loss magnitude ranges;

Firstly, determine a channel loss magnitude with the base station, thespecific determining method is not limited in embodiments of the presentapplication. After determining the channel loss magnitude, the UEdetermines a first channel loss magnitude range including the channelloss magnitude in multiple channel loss magnitude ranges. For example,in combination with division examples of the channel loss magnituderanges in step 601, assuming that the channel loss magnitude is 3 dB,then the first channel loss magnitude range ranges from 0 dB to 5 dB.

603, determine the first enhanced transmission occasion configurationcorresponding to the first channel loss magnitude range.

The first enhanced transmission occasion configuration corresponding tothe first channel loss magnitude range is determined according to acorresponding relationship among a channel loss magnitude range, atransmission type, an information type and an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration in step 601. The information type is a built-inattribute or catalogue of to-be-transmitted information.

Reference may be made to step 302 in FIG. 3 for the specific determiningmethod, which will not be repeated herein.

Therefore, according to the method for information transmission in thepresent application, a corresponding relationship among a channel lossmagnitude range, a transmission type and an enhanced transmissionoccasion can be configured at a UE side through a system predefinedmanner or a base station informing manner. Different channel lossmagnitude ranges correspond to different enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations, more time frequency resources and greater powers areused in a higher channel loss magnitude range to ensure a reliableinformation transmission, and fewer time frequency resources and smallerpowers are used in a lower channel loss magnitude range, so that thetime frequency resource allocation is optimized, the complexity ofsystem implementation is reduced, and the power consumption is saved.

FIG. 7 is a schematic flow chart of a method for informationtransmission according to another embodiment of the present application.The method of FIG. 7 is performed by a UE. FIG. 7 is another morespecific embodiment of FIG. 5.

701. Receive a first enhanced transmission occasion configuration sentby a base station.

Firstly, determine a channel loss magnitude with a base station, thespecific determining method is not limited in embodiments of the presentapplication, the channel loss magnitude may be obtained by a basestation through determining, and may also be obtained by a UE throughdetermining and reporting to the base station, for example, a referencesignal received power (RSRP) measured by the UE; or a reference signalreceived quality (RSRQ) measured by the UE; or a channel qualityinformation (CQI) determined by the UE; or a coverage enhancementexpected by the UE, etc.

Receive the first enhanced transmission occasion configuration sent bythe base station, for the method for determining a first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration by the base station, reference maybe made to FIG. 3 or FIG. 4, which will not be repeated herein.

Specifically, the first enhanced transmission occasion configurationsent by the base station may be received through an RRC dedicatedsignaling and/or a physical layer dedicated signaling. Taking the RRCdedicated signaling as an example, in the case of without consideringthe information type, the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration may be represented in the form of the pseudo codehereunder:

ETO-ConfigDedicated::= {SEQUENCE a time interval of enhancedtransmission occasions T a starting time point of a first enhancedtransmission occasion a starting point of a frequency resource occupiedby an enhanced transmission occasion a size and/or a location of afrequency resource occupied by an enhanced transmission occasion a sizeand/or a location of a time resource occupied by an enhancedtransmission occasion a power configuration adopted for the informationtransmission in an enhanced transmission occasion }

Optionally, in the case of considering the information type, referencemay be made to the embodiment of step 202 in FIG. 2 for the pseudo codeformat of the RRC dedicated signaling, which will not be repeatedherein.

702, perform information transmission on an enhanced transmissionoccasion configured by the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration according to the transmission type.

Firstly, the UE may determine the transmission type through a manner ofreceiving the base station informing, and then transmit theenhancement-processed information on the time frequency resourceconfigured by the first enhanced transmission occasion configuration,for example, the information is transmitted on a resource of M-multiplestime width or of M-multiples frequency width via M-times repetition, orM-multiples spread spectrum modulation, or M-multiples TTI bundling,thereby realizing a reliable information transmission and a coverageenhancement. The information enhanced processing method is not limitedthereto, for example, for a control channel, the information enhancementmay be performed through methods such as an aggregation level or a scopeof a control channel element (CCE) or an enhanced control channelelement (eCCE), a modulation and coding scheme, and power configuration.

Since the first enhanced transmission occasion configuration isdetermined according to the channel loss magnitude, more time frequencyresources are used when the channel loss magnitude is higher, and fewertime frequency resources are utilized when the channel loss magnitude islower, so that the time frequency resource is reasonably allocated, andthe power consumption is saved.

FIG. 8 is a schematic block diagram of a base station according to anembodiment of the present application. As shown in FIG. 8, thisembodiment provides a base station 800 which may specifically performeach step of the embodiment in FIG. 1, and will not be repeated herein.The base station 800 according to this embodiment may specificallyinclude a first determining module 801, and a transmission module 802.

The first determining module 801 is configured to determine a firstenhanced transmission occasion configuration according to a channel lossmagnitude with a user equipment, where a time width occupied by anenhanced transmission occasion is greater than a time width occupied bya non-enhanced transmission occasion; the transmission module 802 isconfigured to transmit information according to the first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration.

FIG. 9 is a schematic block diagram of a base station according toanother embodiment of the present application. As shown in FIG. 9, thisembodiment provides a base station 900 which may specifically performeach step of the embodiments in the FIG. 2, FIG. 3 and FIG. 4, and willnot be repeated herein. The base station 900 according to thisembodiment may specifically include a second determining module 901, afirst determining module 902 and a transmission module 903.

The second determining module 901 is configured to determine multipleenhanced transmission occasion configurations; the first determiningmodule 902 is configured to determine a first enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration according to a channel loss magnitude with a userequipment; the transmission module 903 is configured to transmitinformation according to the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration.

The second determining module 901 is optional, the base station 900needs the second determining module 901 when performing the method inthe FIG. 2 or FIG. 3, and the base station 900 does not need the seconddetermining module 901 when performing the method in the FIG. 4.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the base station 900 performs the methodin the FIG. 2. The second determining module is specifically configuredto configure multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations forthe base station through a system predefined manner. Specifically,corresponding relationships among multiple enhanced transmissionoccasion configurations and multiple channel loss magnitude ranges andtransmission types may be predefined. For example, there is a one-to-onecorrespondence between multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations and multiple channel loss magnitude ranges; atransmission type corresponding to each channel loss magnitude range inmultiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to at least oneinformation type in multiple information types; an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to each channel loss magnituderange in multiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to at leastone information type in multiple information types; there is aone-to-one correspondence between a transmission type corresponding toeach channel loss magnitude range in multiple channel loss magnituderanges and each information type in multiple information types; andthere is a one-to-one correspondence between an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to each channel loss magnituderange in multiple channel loss magnitude ranges and each informationtype in multiple information types. The transmission type indicates atransmission format adopted for the information transmission, and theinformation type indicates an attribute or a type of the information.Reference is made to Table 1, Table 2, and Table 3 of step 201 in theFIG. 2 for a specific corresponding relationship, which will not berepeated herein.

The transmission module 903 is specifically configured to transmitmultiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations corresponding tomultiple channel loss magnitude ranges to the user equipment. Afterdetermining a corresponding relationship between multiple channel lossmagnitude ranges and multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations, the corresponding relationship is sent to the userequipment. Specifically, multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations corresponding to multiple channel loss magnitude rangesmay be sent to the user equipment, and a transmission type correspondingto each channel loss magnitude range may also be sent to the userequipment, so that a corresponding relationship among a channel lossmagnitude range, a transmission type and an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration can be established at a UE side.

More specifically, an actual sending means may be: sending multipleenhanced transmission occasion configuration information andtransmission types to the user equipment through one or multiple of aradio resource control (RRC) broadcast signaling (such as a systeminformation block (SIB) or a master information block (MIB)), an RRCdedicated signaling, an RRC multicast signaling, a media access control(MAC) control element (CE) signaling and a physical layer signaling. Thecorresponding relationship among the channel loss magnitude range, thetransmission type and the information type may be determined through asending sequence, or through a label. For a specific sending method,reference may be made to, but not limited to, the example of RRCbroadcast signaling provided in step 202 of FIG. 2.

Optionally, as another embodiment, the base station 900 performs themethod in the FIG. 3.

The first determining module 902 is specifically configured to:determine a first channel loss magnitude range which the channel lossmagnitude belongs to in multiple channel loss magnitude ranges;determine a first enhanced transmission occasion configurationcorresponding to the first channel loss magnitude range.

Firstly, determine a channel loss magnitude with a UE, the specificdetermining method is not limited in embodiments of the presentapplication, the channel loss magnitude may be obtained by a basestation through determining, and may also be obtained by a UE throughdetermining and reporting to the base station, for example, a referencesignal received power (RSRP) measured by the UE; or a reference signalreceived quality (RSRQ) measured by the UE; or a channel qualityinformation (CQI) determined by the UE; or a coverage enhancementexpected by the UE, etc. The transmission module 903 may be configuredto receive the channel loss magnitude reported by the UE. Afterdetermining the channel loss magnitude, the base station determines afirst channel loss magnitude range including the channel loss magnitudein multiple channel loss magnitude ranges predefined by the system. Thefirst enhanced transmission occasion configuration corresponding to thefirst channel loss magnitude range may be determined according to acorresponding relationship predefined in the second determining module901, specifically, reference may be made to the method of step 302 inthe FIG. 3, and will not be repeated herein.

The transmission module 903 is specifically configured to: performinformation transmission on an enhanced transmission occasion configuredby the first enhanced transmission occasion configuration according tothe transmission type. Transmitting the enhancement-processedinformation on the time frequency resource configured by the firstenhanced transmission occasion configuration, for example, theinformation is transmitted on a resource of M-multiples time width or ofM-multiples frequency width via M-times repetition, or M-multiplesspread spectrum modulation, or M-multiples TTI bundling, therebyrealizing a reliable information transmission and a coverageenhancement. The information enhanced processing method is not limitedthereto, for example, for a control channel, the information enhancementmay be performed through methods such as an aggregation level or a scopeof a control channel element (CCE) or an enhanced control channelelement (eCCE), a modulation and coding scheme, and power configuration.Different enhanced processing methods of the information may beinterpreted as different transmission types.

Optionally, as another embodiment, the base station 900 performs themethod in the FIG. 4.

Specifically, a channel loss magnitude sent by a UE may be received bythe transmission module 903 firstly. The first determining module 902 isspecifically configured to: determine a transmission type according to achannel loss magnitude or a channel loss magnitude range which thechannel loss magnitude belongs to; determine a first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration according to a transmission type andan information type of the information. Reference may be made to step401 and step 402 in the FIG. 4 for the specific determining method,which will not be repeated herein. Then the transmission module 903 isspecifically configured to, send the first enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration which is determined according to the transmissiontype to the user equipment, and/or perform information transmission onan enhanced transmission occasion configured by the first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration according to the transmission type.Reference may be made to step 403 a and step 403 b in the FIG. 4 for thespecific method.

FIG. 10 is a schematic block diagram of a user equipment according to anembodiment of the present application. As shown in FIG. 10, thisembodiment provides a user equipment 1000 which may specifically performeach step of the embodiments in the FIG. 5, and will not be repeatedherein. The user equipment 1000 according to this embodiment mayspecifically include a first determining module 1001 and a transmissionmodule 1002.

The first determining module 1001 is configured to determine a firstenhanced transmission occasion configuration according to a channel lossmagnitude with a base station, where a time width occupied by anenhanced transmission occasion is greater than a time width occupied bya non-enhanced transmission occasion; the transmission module 1002 isconfigured to transmit information according to the first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration.

FIG. 11 is a schematic block diagram of a user equipment according toanother embodiment of the present application. As shown in FIG. 11, thisembodiment provides a user equipment 1100 which may specifically performeach step of the embodiments in the FIG. 6 or FIG. 7, and will not berepeated herein. The user equipment 1100 according to this embodimentmay specifically include a second determining module 1101, a firstdetermining module 1102 and a transmission module 1103.

The second determining module 1101 is configured to determine multipleenhanced transmission occasion configurations; the first determiningmodule 1102 is configured to determine a first enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration according to a channel loss magnitude with a userequipment; the transmission module 1103 is configured to transmitinformation according to the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration.

The second determining module 1101 and the first determining module 1102are optional, the user equipment 1100 needs the second determiningmodule 1101 or the first determining module 1102 when performing themethod in the FIG. 6, and the user equipment 1100 does not need thesecond determining module 1101 and the first determining module 1102when performing the method in the FIG. 7.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the user equipment 1100 performs themethod in the FIG. 6.

The second determining module 1101 is configured to determine multipleenhanced transmission occasion configurations, and may configure themultiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations for the UEthrough a system predefined manner. Specifically, correspondingrelationships among multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations and multiple channel loss magnitude ranges andtransmission types may be predefined. For example, there is a one-to-onecorrespondence between multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations and multiple channel loss magnitude ranges; atransmission type corresponding to each channel loss magnitude range inmultiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to at least oneinformation type in multiple information types; an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to each channel loss magnituderange in multiple channel loss magnitude ranges corresponds to at leastone information type in multiple information types; there is aone-to-one correspondence between a transmission type corresponding toeach channel loss magnitude range in multiple channel loss magnituderanges and each information type in multiple information types; andthere is a one-to-one correspondence between an enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration corresponding to each channel loss magnituderange in multiple channel loss magnitude ranges and each informationtype in multiple information types. The first determining module 1102 isspecifically configured to obtain the predefined plurality of enhancedtransmission occasion configurations at the second determining module1101. The transmission type indicates a transmission format adopted forthe information transmission, and the information type indicates anattribute or a type of the information.

Or, multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations correspondingto multiple channel loss magnitude ranges sent by a base station may bereceived by the transmission module 1103, and transmission types whichcorrespond to each channel loss magnitude range and are sent by a basestation may be received, so that a corresponding relationship among achannel loss magnitude range, a transmission type and an enhancedtransmission occasion configuration can be established at a UE side.Reference may be made to step 601 in the FIG. 6 for the specificreceiving manner, which will not be repeated herein.

The first determining module 1102 is specifically configured to:determine a first channel loss magnitude range which the channel lossmagnitude belongs to in the multiple channel loss magnitude ranges;determine the first enhanced transmission occasion configurationcorresponding to the first channel loss magnitude range. Reference maybe made to step 602 and step 603 in the FIG. 6 for the specific method,which will not be repeated herein.

Optionally, as another embodiment, the user equipment 1100 performs themethod in the FIG. 7.

A channel loss magnitude determined by the user equipment may be sent toa base station by the transmission module 1103. The transmission module1103 may also be configured to receive a first enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration sent by a base station. Reference may be made tostep 701 in the FIG. 7 for the specific method, which will not berepeated herein.

Finally, the transmission module 1103 may perform informationtransmission on an enhanced transmission occasion configured by thefirst enhanced transmission occasion configuration according to thetransmission type. Reference may be made to step 702 in the FIG. 7 forthe specific method, which will not be repeated herein.

Therefore, the user equipment in the present application can make therange which each channel loss magnitude belongs to correspond to eachenhanced transmission occasion configuration, so that the user equipmentmay send and/or receive information according to the range which thechannel loss magnitude between the user equipment and the base stationbelongs to, therefore, the resource allocation is optimized, and thepower consumption is saved.

FIG. 12 is a schematic block diagram of a base station according to anembodiment of the present application. As shown in FIG. 12, thisembodiment provides a base station 1200 which may specifically performeach step of embodiments in the FIG. 1˜FIG. 4, FIG. 8 and FIG. 9, andwill not be repeated herein. The base station 1200 according to thisembodiment may specifically include a processor 1201 and a transceiver1202.

The processor 1201 is configured to determine a first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration according to a channel lossmagnitude with a user equipment. The transceiver 1202 is configured totransmit information according to the first enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration determined by the processor 1201.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the processor 1201 may also be configuredto determine multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations,reference may be made to step 201 in the FIG. 2 for the specificdetermining method, and will not be repeated herein. The transceiver1202 may also be configured to send the multiple enhanced transmissionoccasion configurations and/or transmission types determined by theprocessor 1201, reference may be made to step 202 in the FIG. 2 for thespecific sending method, and will not be repeated herein.

Optionally, as another embodiment, the transceiver 1202 may also beconfigured to receive a channel loss magnitude with a user equipment,the processor 1201 may also be configured to determine a first channelloss magnitude range which the channel loss magnitude received by thetransceiver 1202 belongs to in the multiple channel loss magnituderanges; determine a first enhanced transmission occasion configurationcorresponding to the first channel loss magnitude range.

Optionally, as another embodiment, the processor 1201 may also beconfigured to determine a transmission type according to a channel lossmagnitude range which the channel loss magnitude belongs to; determine afirst enhanced transmission occasion configuration according to thetransmission type and an information type of the information. Thetransceiver 1201 may be specifically configured to perform informationtransmission on an enhanced transmission occasion configured by thefirst enhanced transmission occasion configuration according to thetransmission type.

FIG. 13 is a schematic block diagram of a user equipment according to anembodiment of the present application. As shown in FIG. 13, thisembodiment provides a user equipment 1300 which may specifically performeach step of the embodiments in the FIG. 5˜FIG. 7, FIG. 10 and FIG. 11,and will not be repeated herein. The user equipment 1300 according tothis embodiment may specifically include a processor 1301 and atransceiver 1302.

The processor 1301 is configured to determine a first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration according to a channel lossmagnitude with a base station. The transceiver 1302 is configured totransmit information according to the first enhanced transmissionoccasion configuration determined by the processor 1301.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the processor 1301 may also be configuredto determine multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations,reference may be made to step 601 in the FIG. 6 for the specificdetermining method, and will not be repeated herein. The transceiver1302 may also be configured to receive multiple enhanced transmissionoccasion configurations and/or transmission types sent by the basestation, reference may be made to step 601 in the FIG. 6 for thespecific receiving method, and will not be repeated herein. Theprocessor 1301 is also specifically configured to: determine a firstchannel loss magnitude range which the channel loss magnitude belongs toin the multiple channel loss magnitude ranges; determine the firstenhanced transmission occasion configuration corresponding to the firstchannel loss magnitude range.

Optionally, as another embodiment, the transceiver 1302 may also beconfigured to: send a channel loss magnitude with a base station to thebase station; receive a first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration sent by a base station; perform information transmissionon an enhanced transmission occasion configured by the first enhancedtransmission occasion configuration according to the transmission type.

Ordinary persons skilled in the art may realize that, based on theembodiments disclosed in this text, the described units and algorithmprocedures in each example can be achieved by the electronic hardware,the computer software, or a combination of both, in order to clearlyexplain the interchangeability of the hardware and software, thecomposition and procedure of each example have been generally describedin the illustrations according to the function. Whether these functionsshould be executed in the way of hardware or software, it depends onprescribed applications and designed restriction conditions for thetechnical solutions. The professional technical persons may adoptdifferent methods in each prescribed application so as to realize adescribed function, but this kind of realization should not beconsidered as going beyond the scope of present application.

Persons skilled in the art may clearly know that, for the convenience ofa concise description, reference may be made to the correspondingprocesses in the foregoing method embodiments in which specificfunctioning processes of a system, a device, and units are describedabove. It is unnecessary to go into details herein.

It should be understood that the system, the device, and the methoddisclosed in some embodiments of the present application may be achievedby other means, for example, the device embodiments described above aremerely schematic, for example, the division for the described units ismerely a division by logical function, and there may be extra divisionmethods in practical implementations; for example, multiple units orcomponents may be combined or integrated into another system, or somefeatures may be ignored or may not be executed. In addition, thedisplayed or discussed couplings between each other, or directcouplings, or communication links may be via some interfaces, indirectcouplings or communication links of devices or units, and may also beelectrical, mechanical or other forms of connections.

The units described as separating components may be or may not bephysically separated, the components displayed as units may be or maynot be physical units, i.e. may locate in one place or be distributed tomultiple network units. Part of or all of the units may be selectedaccording to the practical needs so as to realize the purpose of thetechnical solutions of embodiments of the present application.

In addition, each functional unit as described in embodiments of thepresent application may be integrated into one processing unit, or eachunit may separately and physically exist, or two or more than two unitsmay be integrated into one unit. The foregoing integrated units may beachieved in the form of hardware, and may also be achieved in the formof software functional units.

If the integrated units are achieved in the form of software functionalunits and are sold and used as independent products, they can be storedinto a computer readable storage medium. Based on this understanding,technical solutions of the present application in essence, or the partswith contribution to the prior art, or parts of or all of the technicalsolutions, may be embodied in the form of software products. Thecomputer software products are stored into a storage medium whichincludes a number of instructions for enabling one computer device (maybe a personal computer, a server, or a network equipment, etc.) toexecute all or part of the steps of methods as described in eachembodiment of the present application. The foregoing storage mediumincludes various media which can store program codes: a U-disk, a mobilehard disk, a read-only memory (ROM), a random access memory (RAM), adiskette, or a compact disk, etc.

The above descriptions are merely implementation methods of the presentapplication, while the protection scope of the present application isnot limited thereto. Any persons familiar with the techniques in thisfield may easily thought of various modifications or replacements withinthe scope of techniques disclosed in the present application, all thesemodifications or replacements should be included in the protection scopeof the present application. Therefore, the protection scope of thepresent application should be subject to the claims.

What is claimed is:
 1. A base station, comprising: a transceiver; atleast one processor; and a computer-readable storage medium storing aprogram to be executed by the at least one processor, the programcomprising instructions configured for: causing the transceiver to sendmultiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations to userequipment; selecting an enhanced transmission occasion corresponding toa first enhanced transmission occasion configuration, wherein themultiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations comprise thefirst enhanced transmission occasion configuration, and the multipleenhanced transmission occasion configurations have a one-to-onecorrespondence with multiple reference signal received power (RSRP)ranges; and causing the transceiver to perform an informationtransmission on the enhanced transmission occasion with the userequipment wherein, during the information transmission, information issent or received on the enhanced transmission occasion.
 2. The basestation according to claim 1, wherein a size of time resource occupiedby the enhanced transmission occasion is greater than a size of timeresource occupied by a non-enhanced transmission occasion that isallocated for a non-enhanced transmission.
 3. The base station accordingto claim 1, the program further comprising instructions configured forcausing the transceiver to perform the information transmission with anumber of transmission repetitions for the information transmission onthe enhanced transmission occasion.
 4. The base station according toclaim 1, wherein the first enhanced transmission occasion configurationcomprises at least one of the following: a location of a frequencyresource occupied by the enhanced transmission occasion; a size of atime resource occupied by the enhanced transmission occasion; or alocation of a time resource occupied by the enhanced transmissionoccasion.
 5. The base station according to claim 1, the program furthercomprising instructions configured for causing the transceiver to sendthe multiple enhanced transmission occasion configurations through atleast one of a radio resource control (RRC) broadcast signaling and anRRC dedicated signaling.
 6. The base station according to claim 1,wherein the information transmission is performed via one of thefollowing channels: a physical random access channel, physical uplinkcontrol channel, a physical downlink shared channel, a physical uplinkshared channel, or a physical downlink control channel.
 7. The basestation according to claim 1, wherein the information transmissioncomprises a transmission of a random access response message.
 8. Amethod, comprising: sending multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations to user equipment; selecting an enhanced transmissionoccasion corresponding to a first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration, wherein the multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations comprise the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration, and the multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations have a one-to-one correspondence with multiple referencesignal received power (RSRP) ranges; and performing an informationtransmission on the enhanced transmission occasion with the userequipment wherein, during the information transmission, information issent or received on the enhanced transmission occasion.
 9. The methodaccording to claim 1, wherein a size of time resource occupied by theenhanced transmission occasion is greater than a size of time resourceoccupied by a non-enhanced transmission occasion that is allocated for anon-enhanced transmission.
 10. The method according to claim 8,comprising: performing the information transmission with a number oftransmission repetitions for the information transmission on theenhanced transmission occasion.
 11. The method according to claim 8,wherein the first enhanced transmission occasion configuration comprisesat least one of the following: a location of a frequency resourceoccupied by the enhanced transmission occasion; a size of a timeresource occupied by the enhanced transmission occasion; or a locationof a time resource occupied by the enhanced transmission occasion. 12.The method according to claim 8, comprising: sending the multipleenhanced transmission occasion configurations through at least one of aradio resource control (RRC) broadcast signaling and an RRC dedicatedsignaling.
 13. The method according to claim 8, wherein the informationtransmission is performed via one of the following channels: a physicalrandom access channel, physical uplink control channel, a physicaldownlink shared channel, a physical uplink shared channel or a physicaldownlink control channel.
 14. The method according to claim 8, whereinthe information transmission comprises a transmission of a random accessresponse message.
 15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage mediumcomprising instructions which, when executed by a base station, causethe base station to: send multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations to user equipment; select an enhanced transmissionoccasion corresponding to a first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration, wherein the multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations comprise the first enhanced transmission occasionconfiguration, and the multiple enhanced transmission occasionconfigurations have a one-to-one correspondence with multiple referencesignal received power (RSRP) ranges; and perform an informationtransmission on the enhanced transmission occasion with the userequipment wherein, during the information transmission, information issent or received on the enhanced transmission occasion.
 16. Thenon-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15,wherein a size of time resource occupied by the enhanced transmissionoccasion is greater than a size of time resource occupied by anon-enhanced transmission occasion that is allocated for a non-enhancedtransmission.
 17. The non-transitory computer-readable storage mediumaccording to claim 15, comprising instructions which, when executed bythe base station, cause the base station to: perform the informationtransmission with a number of transmission repetitions for theinformation transmission on the enhanced transmission occasion.
 18. Thenon-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15,wherein the first enhanced transmission occasion configuration comprisesat least one of the following: a location of a frequency resourceoccupied by the enhanced transmission occasion; a size of a timeresource occupied by the enhanced transmission occasion; or a locationof a time resource occupied by the enhanced transmission occasion. 19.The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim15, wherein the information transmission is performed via one of thefollowing channels: a physical random access channel, physical uplinkcontrol channel, a physical downlink shared channel, a physical uplinkshared channel or a physical downlink control channel.
 20. Thenon-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 15,wherein the information transmission comprises a transmission of arandom access response message.